Australia remain hopeful that Alyssa Healy will be fit to feature in the day-night Ashes Test at the MCG, and have named her in a 13-player squad, but it will be as a batter only if she does recover in time.

Australia have named captain Alyssa Healy as a batter only in the day-night Ashes Test against England at the Melbourne <a t

Alyssa Healy has a recurrence of the foot injury she picked up in the T20 World Cup and misses the opening T20 game with England.

Australian captain Alyssa Healy is “flat”, with her Ashes campaign in doubt, but Ash Gardner could return for the next T20 against England, with the “well-oiled machine” determined to seize every remaining point on offer having retained the trophy in just eight days.

Australia have been dealt a huge blow in the ongoing Women's Ashes with their skipper Alyssa Healy ruled out of the first T20I. Moreover, her participation in the remainder of the Ashes is also in doubt due to a foot injury.

Australian cricket team's captain Alyssa Healy has been ruled out of the first T20I at the SCG. She suffered a foot injury on the same side as her previous plantar fascia injury during last year's ICC Women's T20 World Cup. The nature of her condition has raised doubts over her participation in the remaining matches of the Ashes series.

Australia captain Alyssa Healy has been ruled out of the first T20I at the SCG and is in doubt for the remainder of the Ashes series after developing foot soreness on the same side as the injury she sustained at last year's T20 World Cup It will mean that Australia will likely be led by Tahlia McGrath as they aim to go 8-0 up and retain the Ashes in Sydney while the top-order vacancy could be filled by either Grace Harris or the uncapped Georgia Voll.

Australia's Beth Mooney hopes Ash Gardner will play in the second Ashes Twenty20-International but Alyssa Healy's return date from her own injury is less clear